California Man Charged In Decade-Long Disappearance Of Teen

The home of suspect Isidro Medrano Garcia, in Bell Gardens, Calif., on Wednesday. Garcia allegedly abducted a 15-year-old girl in 2004 and held her captive for 10 years. He is charged with kidnapping and rape and is being held on $1 million bail.

Isidro Medrano Garcia, who was charged early Thursday, is being held on $1 million bail.

Officials have said that the unidentified woman, now 25, says Garcia had been dating her mother in 2004 at the time of the kidnapping. She says he held her against her will for a decade and in 2007, forced her to marry him.

But Garcia's attorney says the woman's claims of physical and sexual abuse are "lies made up because the couple is breaking up," The Associated Press says.

According to the AP:

"Attorney Charles Frisco said Thursday outside a brief court hearing that his client ... denies all the allegations, never hit his wife, and would never have prevented her from leaving."

Prosecutors say the alleged victim's mother, whom she recently contacted on Facebook, persuaded her to go to the police.

Authorities said Garcia inflicted mental, physical and sexual abuse on the woman, moved her at least four times and gave her multiple fake identities. She told police that she though about escaping but stayed out of fear.